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Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A726r

Sound Recordings, Nottinghamshire and Lincolnshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009); Siporin, Rae Lee

[1965-1980]

Compilation of Survey of English Dialects fieldwork recordings (copies) for Nottinghamshire locations 9Nt1-4, and Lincolnshire 10L1-3. The original recordings were made in 1952, 1956, 1957 and 1965. T...

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Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/D/2/D147 Contains digital media

Dialect recording in Tideswell, Derbyshire. Survey of English Dialects recording in Kniveton, Derbyshire

Ellis, Stanley (1926-2009)

23 Aug 1952

[Side 1] David talks about poor childhood and memories of parents, recalls keeping pigs and hens until he saved enough to buy smallholding, discusses cattle farming and describes how local farmer and ...

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Archive File: LAVC/SRP/2/037

Farming Traditions in South Shropshire

Gwilliam, K Sheila

1967

A thesis based on the experiences of the collector's family, farming an area near Clun in Shropshire.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/ADA

Adam's luxury, and Eve's cookery; or, The kitchen-garden display'd : In two parts. I. Shewing the best and most approved methods of raising and bringing to the greatest perfection, all the products of the kitchen-garden; with a kalendar shewing the different products of each month, and the business proper to be done in it. II. Containing a large collection of receipts for dressing all sorts of kitchen-stuff so as to afford a great variety of cheap, healthful, and palatable dishes. To which is added, the physical virtues of every herb and root. Designed for the use of all who would live cheap, and preserve their health to old age; particularly for farmers and tradesmen in the country, who have but small pieces of garden ground, and are willing to make the most of it

1744

Anon.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/ADA

Adam's luxury, and Eve's cookery; or, The kitchen-garden display'd : In two parts. I. Shewing the best and most approved methods of raising and bringing to the greatest perfection, all the products of the kitchen-garden; with a kalendar shewing the different products of each month, and the business proper to be done in it. II. Containing a large collection of receipts for dressing all sorts of kitchen-stuff so as to afford a great variety of cheap, healthful, and palatable dishes. To which is added, the physical virtues of every herb and root. Designed for the use of all who would live cheap, and preserve their health to old age; particularly for farmers and tradesmen in the country, who have but small pieces of garden ground, and are willing to make the most of it

1744

Anon.

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Archive Print Item: Cookery A/ADA

Adam's luxury, and Eve's cookery; or, The kitchen-garden display'd : In two parts. I. Shewing the best and most approved methods of raising and bringing to the greatest perfection, all the products of the kitchen-garden; with a kalendar shewing the different products of each month, and the business proper to be done in it. II. Containing a large collection of receipts for dressing all sorts of kitchen-stuff so as to afford a great variety of cheap, healthful, and palatable dishes. To which is added, the physical virtues of every herb and root. Designed for the use of all who would live cheap, and preserve their health to old age; particularly for farmers and tradesmen in the country, who have but small pieces of garden ground, and are willing to make the most of it

1744

Anon.

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Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A815r Contains digital media

Sound Recordings, Devon

Wright, John T

October 1958

[Announcement, ?by Tony Green]; Ernest Smythe, recorded in Parracombe; talks about working life on the railway (as office boy, timekeeper); gangs working on the line, and the difficulty of building it...

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Archive Item: LAVC/SRE/A806r Contains digital media

Sound Recordings, West Sussex, Surrey, Berkshire and East Sussex

Barry, Michael V (1935-)

1959

[Collector announcement]; Harry Prior, recorded in East Harting (West Sussex) in June 1959; talks about Sussex farm waggons; harvesting and building a stack; thatching a haystack; local parkland; info...

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